[ale] Cheap dialtone for DSL

Benjamin Scherrey scherrey at proteus-tech.com
Mon Jan 17 23:47:49 EST 2005


I've got naked dsl with Speakeasy.net. Speedfactory apparently can't 
offer this yet but if Speakeasy is available in your area then you 
should be good to go. Works great and I only pay a few bucks for the 
right not to have a land line phone. The rest is cell & Vonage.

    -- Ben Scherrey

Jason Fritcher wrote:

> Pete Hardie wrote:
>
>> ISTR seeing mention of "naked DSL" being available - DSL sans
>> dialtone.
>
>
> All the arguments I've seen about naked DSL is the fact that they can't
> recover the loop charges from the ISP. I don't see what the problem 
> is. When
> they allow a CLEC access to an unbundled loop for voice, the charge to 
> the
> CLEC includes their loop charges. Why can't they do the same thing with
> unbundled DSL? I've seen references to other ILECs this is available 
> from,
> and there is a negligible, $5-10/mo, increase for the loop charges.
>
> > Perhaps this is one of those things that they will never
> > offer, unless you beat it out of them.
>
> Heh, where's the clue-by-four? :)
>



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